Blurbs from the Hardcopy Edition

Blurbs from People on Whose Server I have Root Password

Philip Greenspun interfaced our 60 GB Oracle medical record database to
the Web in 1994. It took him three weeks and all it cost me was a 4 GB
hard disk and some SIMMs for his Macintosh. Since then, Greenspun has
become too rich and famous to write Perl anymore. I'm going to use this
book to train some high school kids to replace him.

"Caught up in the frenzy of just being there, we have all been enticed
by the possibilities the Net offers in a one-to-one world of idea and
transactional commerce. Many have planted expensive seeds on the Net with
the hope that they will germinate into something of value. Greenspun has
thoroughly captured the logic of what can win from the viewpoint of both
the creator, who may be, and the viewer, who is, king. Information and
ideas can serve lofty purposes but without organization, tools to easily
mine and find, and an audience to share and view, there is no purpose."

Blurbs from People Whose Products I Plug

"This is the first book on RDBMS-backed Web sites that an intelligent
programmer can enjoy"

Doug McKee, Manager, Web Server Development, America OnLine

[Note: I do not use or plug AOL as most people know it; I use and
plug AOLserver, a fabulous
product that AOL bought. Doug came with AOLserver.]

Blurbs from People Who Work In My Building at MIT

"There are a lot of books that will tell you how to design a web
site that looks like something else --- a computer game, or a
print magazine --- which would be great if web pages were
computer games or print magazines. They aren't. Read this
book to find out what they are."

Robert S. Thau, author of the Apache Web server

"Greenspun's prize-winning and colorful Web publishing experience is as old
as the Web and a must for all aspiring Web publishers."

Michael L. Dertouzos, Director MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Author of What Will Be

Blurbs from Serious Bigshots Who Are Friends with My Friends

"IBM has been working for 20 years to build high performance relational
database management systems. This book gives you field-tested ideas
and techniques to unlock the data and deliver it to users across the
Internet."

"Smart companies are using the Web to support collaboration. Smarter
companies will be using the Web to support computer-to-computer
transactions. Philip Greenspun has written the first book that explains
how to do both elegantly."